A MINTONS BONE CHINA OVAL QUEEN'S VASE, COVER AND STAND with a fruit and leaf finial, the mazarine blue ground painted by Lucien Boullemier with 17th Century figures fighting over a card-game, one of the protagonists being restrained by his companions, the reverse with flowers within a rectangular white cartouche, the sides moulded with white and gilt vertical scrolls festooned with laurel-wreaths above a chased gilt band of foliage, the lower body with leaves entwining a rod, on an oval foot, the burnished gilt stand moulded with key-pattern and leaves, on four bun feet, impressed and gilt marks, model number 626, date code for 1881

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细节

A MINTONS BONE CHINA OVAL QUEEN'S VASE, COVER AND STAND with a fruit and leaf finial, the mazarine blue ground painted by Lucien Boullemier with 17th Century figures fighting over a card-game, one of the protagonists being restrained by his companions, the reverse with flowers within a rectangular white cartouche, the sides moulded with white and gilt vertical scrolls festooned with laurel-wreaths above a chased gilt band of foliage, the lower body with leaves entwining a rod, on an oval foot, the burnished gilt stand moulded with key-pattern and leaves, on four bun feet, impressed and gilt marks, model number 626, date code for 1881
15½in. (39.5cm.) high

来源

Sir James Horlick

拍品专文

A reproduction of the original Sèvres éscritoire vase. Cf. Joan Jones, Minton, the First Two Hundred years of Design and Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 85. See also Minton 1798-1910, Exhibition Catalogue, Victoria and Albert Museum and Thomas Goode & Company Limited, London, 1976, p. 100, pl. 81, nos. TG8 & 9 for a pair with pâte-sur-pâte decoration
The son of Antonin Boullemier, Lucien trained under his father at Minton and specialised in painting portraits and figure subjects